ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses women's who work to live in to manual workers, clerical workers, and workers in female professions. Women who work to live toil in a wide variety of jobs ranging from domestic worker and factory operative to teacher and nurse. Their common ground is that they work in female-dominated occupations and are generally poorly paid. Their attitudes toward their work vary with the status of the work they perform, but most of these women work because they need the money. Women manual workers usually comes from poor families. They often have less than a high school education. They marry working-class men and work because of financial need. Frequently they are the sole breadwinner. Working-class women themselves must take the initiative to obtain skilled training and to transform cultural attitudes. They must acknowledge their new reality as lifelong rather than temporary workers and insist that they and their daughters receive skilled and technical training to enter the male trades.
